Astronomers at Work

Today we did a science experiment. The question we aimed to answer is "Why can we stars at night, but we cannot see them well during the day?" The goal was to see that when the lights are on (sunlight), it is harder to see any stars because the sunlight is so bright. When we turned the lights off (night time), it was easier to see the stars because the sun's brightness was gone.

We shined flashlights into styrofoam cups with holes punched in them (to look like stars), onto a black sheet of paper, both with the lights on and off.